Chapter Summaries

Ren Ze developed an illusion realm that trapped the high-level alien King Mountain-Suppressing King until he burned away most of his divine body and self-destructed. His victory earned him the title Illusion Arrow King and spread his reputation as a king-level limit powerhouse, while he chose to remain on the Outer Battlefield.

• Ren Ze’s first illusion technique imitated the Eternal Arrow’s fluctuations, making alien Kings flee, and he spent ten years refining his illusion realm with Liana.
• Ren Ze attacked the demon-camp Mountain-Suppressing King, who recognized him as the Golden Arrow King and fled while burning his divine body.
• Ren Ze used his Cosmic Projection and illusion realm to delay Mountain-Suppressing King and obstruct approaching reinforcements, leaving the King to burn away nearly all his divine body before self-destructing.
• Ren Ze escaped the blast, collected the spoils, and withdrew after exhausting himself; the Virtual Universe Company praised his record, but he declined to leave the Outer Battlefield.
• The demon camp named Ren Ze the Illusion Arrow King after Mountain-Suppressing King’s death, and the Automaton Race spread news of another high-level King’s fall, making his reputation reach across the battlefield.

Ren Ze was interrupted while cultivating by news that the Undying Venerable was coercing Luo Feng to sell Earth. Ren Ze drove off the Venerable’s pressure and set out to protect Earth as its secret drew the attention of powerful figures.

• The Chaos City Leader praised Ren Ze for killing two high-level king-class enemies and advised him to delay joining the Hong Alliance until he left the Outer Battlefield.
• The Undying Venerable contacted Luo Feng, demanded to buy the Milky Way, then revealed that he wanted Earth and pressured Luo Feng when he refused.
• Luo Feng endured the Undying Venerable’s assault without asking Ren Ze for help, and Babata urged him to contact Ren Ze.
• Ren Ze learned of the attack, entered the Virtual Universe, and used his universe projection to neutralize the Undying Venerable’s pressure on Luo Feng.
• After the Undying Venerable ended the call, Ren Ze told Luo Feng to return to Earth and said he would come back from the Outer Battlefield to help protect it.

King Yan Zhu tried to force Luo Feng to sell Earth, threatening its people, but Ren Ze appeared as Illusion Arrow King and rescued Luo Feng. The battle drew powerful reinforcements, and Venerable Guiyi’s arrival revealed that Illusion Arrow King was Ren Ze.

• King Yan Zhu offered Luo Feng one billion chaos units for Earth, then seized Earth’s humans and threatened to kill them when Luo Feng refused.
• Ren Ze appeared, used the Cloud-Contact Vine to rescue Luo Feng and Dylan, and fought off the pursuing kings, capturing Thorn Heart King.
• Luo Feng contacted his allies as powerful groups rushed toward Earth, while Bloodthirsty King arrived and confronted King Yan Zhu.
• King Yan Zhu began activating his father’s treasure, but Venerable Erosion Fire appeared and stopped him.
• Venerable Guiyi arrived and addressed Ren Ze as his junior brother, leaving the immortals stunned to learn that Illusion Arrow King was Ren Ze.

Venerable Guiyi explained that Earth’s extraordinary willpower talent had drawn the human race’s attention, and Chaos City Leader confirmed that Giant Axe Founder had investigated Earth and that its ownership would be decided for the race. Ren Ze proposed building floating cities over Earth’s oceans for visitors while demanding that Earth humans be left undisturbed, threatening to kill anyone who violated the prohibition.

• Venerable Erosion Fire ordered King Yan Zhu to release the Earth humans, sent his son to Ninth Starfield Prison for 1,000 epochs, and left with his subordinates.
• Venerable Guiyi told Ren Ze and Luo Feng that Earth’s willpower talent had attracted the human race’s greatest powerhouse and that Earth’s final ownership would likely be decided at the racial level.
• Chaos City Leader met Ren Ze and Luo Feng and explained that Giant Axe Founder had discovered Earth was created by an ancient powerful being and produced willpower geniuses at an extraordinary rate.
• Ren Ze proposed that the Virtual Universe Company build floating cities above Earth’s oceans to host visitors seeking Earth’s benefits.
• Ren Ze demanded that visitors stay off Earth’s land and never threaten, manipulate, or disrupt Earth humans, declaring that anyone who broke the prohibition would die by his hand.

Ren Ze persuaded the Chaos City Leader to support a plan for a Forbidden Land Floating City on Earth, and the human race's Universe Masters approved it unanimously. After delegating the project to Luo Feng and staying in Chaos City to avoid exposure, Ren Ze received an envoy team from the Hong Alliance and agreed to join.

• Ren Ze presented a plan for a floating city on Earth's oceans, and the Chaos City Leader proposed company funding and additional resources for Earth's humans.
• The human race's Universe Masters debated Earth's management, then unanimously voted to approve the plan after the Chaos City Leader invoked the Original Ancestor's name.
• Ren Ze handed Luo Feng the work of overseeing the floating city's construction and stayed in Chaos City to study the laws and avoid risking exposure on the Outer Battlefield.
• Colvin informed Ren Ze that a nine-member Hong Alliance envoy team had arrived, led by Desireheart King, to invite him to join.
• Ren Ze accepted the Hong Alliance's invitation, and a dazzling star appeared above the living room.

Ren Ze joined the Hong Alliance, then spent a century cultivating in Chaos City and comprehended the Law of Gold, but his unusually sturdy life core resisted his attempts to break through to immortality. After the Chaos City Leader gave him the Chaos True Explanation, Ren Ze realized that his growing inner universe was strengthening the life core just as quickly, leaving him worried that he might run out of time before finding a solution.

• A mysterious silhouette welcomed Ren Ze as an official Hong Alliance member, and he celebrated with the alliance envoys before studying his new three-star access and choosing not to visit Hong Alliance City.
• After a hundred years in Chaos City, Ren Ze completed his comprehension of the Law of Gold and tried to break his life core with a powerful strike, but it quickly repaired itself.
• Ren Ze fused the Eternal Arrow with the Law of Gold and cracked the life core, but the cracks healed within moments.
• Ren Ze sought advice from the Chaos City Leader, who gave him the Chaos True Explanation and relayed that Original Ancestor considered Ren Ze's path extraordinary but could not explain it.
• The Chaos City Leader urged Ren Ze to become immortal, while Ren Ze realized his inner universe and life core were strengthening together and feared he might exhaust his World Master lifespan before finding a way to break through.

After nine centuries of studying spatial laws, Ren Ze used the Star Map again and concluded that its worlds were dreamlike scenarios whose time stopped when he left. He confirmed that people from the Swallowed Star Universe could enter the Star Map, while most could not survive leaving it, and planned to recruit capable explorers to help him find a way to overcome his life core’s shackles.

• Ren Ze mastered Spatial Lockdown and developed a control-focused ultimate technique inspired by I Am the Universe, but it could not free him from his life core’s shackles.
• After reading Luo Feng’s email, Ren Ze realized his internal universe and life gene level had grown during his nine hundred years of cultivation, further tightening the threat of his limited lifespan.
• Ren Ze discovered that the Star Map had opened access to all its worlds and returned to Resident Evil, where Alice’s reunion and the frozen passage of time led him to suspect the worlds were dream scenarios.
• Ren Ze tested the Star Map by bringing immortal Hunter Mantises into it and found they remained there; he then concluded that Resident Evil’s apparent universe beyond the Solar System was an illusion.
• Ren Ze brought two humans from the Star Map into his internal universe, where one disintegrated and the soul-enslaved survivor persisted, confirming that only a marked person could survive the transfer.
• Ren Ze decided to visit the Outer Battlefield and recruit powerful explorers to gather resources from new Star Map worlds, hoping to grow stronger faster than his life core tightened.

Ren Ze built a vast force by ambushing and recruiting immortals across the Outer Battlefield, creating the mysterious ghost incidents. When the Great Sun King pursued him after sensing Kevin's near-fall, Ren Ze waited to test whether he could capture another powerful recruit.

• Ren Ze recruited hundreds of High Kings, nearly a hundred Peak Kings, and nine Limit Kings during 913 days of ambushes, while a Peak King Zerg Queen enslaved the vanished human Kings and Marquises.
• The Great Sun King, an extreme kinged immortal protected by the Blood Beast Scale Armor, sensed through the One Heart secret technique that Kevin had fallen into a weakened state.
• Suspecting a ghost incident, the Great Sun King flew alone toward Kevin's location in the Twin Spiral Region.
• Ren Ze detected the Great Sun King within his universe projection, sent his subordinates into a world ring, and teleported away, but the Great Sun King tracked him.
• After learning that none of the seized treasures bore a soul mark, Ren Ze concluded that the captured Peak King himself was marked and decided to risk confronting the pursuer.
• Ren Ze stopped teleporting and waited in the void, hoping to capture the Great Sun King and continue his recruitment campaign.

Ren Ze defeated Great Sun King, but the king’s final message exposed him as the mastermind behind the Ghost Incident and brought Sirius Lord to the battlefield. Ren Ze escaped into a strange new world with Sirius Lord’s remnant soul trapped inside him, where it failed to break through his life core and threatened to wait him out.

• Ren Ze and his enslaved Kings attacked Great Sun King, who resisted their assault with his Blood Beast Scale Armor and sent a final message naming Ren Ze before self-destructing.
• Ren Ze retrieved Great Sun King’s armor, but Sirius Lord arrived in Sirius Palace and attacked him after learning he was behind the Ghost Incident.
• Ren Ze activated a high-grade star and escaped into another world, but Sirius Lord’s will and remnant soul followed him through the attack.
• Sirius Lord repeatedly struck Ren Ze’s life core, but it withstood the assaults, so Ren Ze sent ten high-level king-sealed experts out to gather intelligence.
• After night fell, Ren Ze taunted Sirius Lord, who vowed to wait until Ren Ze could no longer resist and then seize control of his soul.

Ren Ze learned that he had arrived in the late Shang Dynasty, where the Investiture of the Gods calamity was approaching, and set out to seek opportunities while dealing with Sirius Lord. After encountering Jade Cauldron True Man, Ren Ze invented a connection to Primordial Lord and gained the Daoist’s interest.

• Ren Ze gathered information from his soul slaves, identified the world’s cultivation system, and ordered his King-level subordinates to explore discreetly and collect techniques and treasures.
• Ten years passed as Ren Ze’s soul slaves infiltrated the Interception Sect and traveled among local demons, while Ren Ze learned that King Zhou had recently taken the throne and the great calamity was nearing.
• Ren Ze went to White Bone Cave looking for Lady Shiji, found it empty, and followed Jade Cauldron True Man after overhearing him discuss recruiting Yang Jian as a disciple.
• Ren Ze sent the Sea-Overturning King to attack Jade Cauldron True Man, then secretly froze space to block the Daoist’s teleportation treasure before staging a rescue.
• Ren Ze claimed he was an old acquaintance of Primordial Lord and that Jade Cauldron True Man could call him Martial Uncle; Jade Cauldron True Man failed to identify him through divination and considered drawing him into their branch.

Ren Ze joined Jade Cauldron True Man on the way to Jade Spring Mountain, gaining access to the Eight-Nine Profound Art and Three Heads and Six Arms. After Great Golden Crow confronted them while hunting Yang Jian and his sister, Ren Ze used a dream and implanted memories to make him believe Ren Ze was his father, then drove him away; Ren Ze still needed pills or treasures to suppress the extraterrestrial heavenly demons.

• Jade Cauldron True Man invited Ren Ze to Golden Glow Cave and shared the Jade Void lineage's cultivation methods while asking for guidance.
• Jade Cauldron True Man asked Ren Ze to take him to Jade Spring Mountain before Yang Jian arrived for his apprenticeship.
• Great Golden Crow confronted Ren Ze and Jade Cauldron True Man while searching for a brother and sister, and Jade Cauldron True Man denied knowing them.
• Ren Ze learned from Jade Cauldron True Man that the current Ten Golden Crows were the Jade Emperor's divine generals, created using the remains of the original Golden Crows.
• Ren Ze pulled Great Golden Crow into a dream, implanted a false story that Ren Ze was his father, and made him flee after simulating the pressure of an extraterrestrial heavenly demon.
• Ren Ze asked Jade Cauldron True Man where to find pills or spiritual treasures, and learned he might have to seek them from Supreme Lord Laozi in the Heavenly Court.

Ren Ze followed Yang Jian into the Heavenly Court, hoping to steal peaches, and encountered Nezha on the way. After locating the Peach Garden, he used an illusion of the Eldest Fairy Maiden to trick its Earth God into opening the barrier, then slipped inside as a bee.

• Jade Cauldron True Man suggested Ren Ze seek treasures in the Heavenly Court and asked whether Yang Jian was among the siblings Great Golden Crow pursued.
• Ren Ze studied the world’s laws at Jade Spring Mountain, then followed Yang Jian into the Immortal Realm after learning Yang Chan had been captured.
• Ren Ze met Nezha, fought off his playful challenge, and directed him toward the Southern Heavenly Gate as Nezha went to intercept the Dragon King of the East Sea.
• Ren Ze searched for the Peach Garden, discovered it beyond the Jade Pool, and found its peach trees protected by a golden barrier.
• Ren Ze disguised himself as the Eldest Fairy Maiden and persuaded the Earth God to open the barrier, then flew through as a bee.

Ren Ze, disguised as the Eldest Princess, persuaded the Jade Emperor to spare Yang Chan and use her as bait for Yang Jian, while secretly eating peaches in the Peach Garden. Yang Jian and Nezha rescued Yang Chan before the decree arrived, and Ren Ze left with the Sixth Princess before ending his disguise.

• Ren Ze deceived the Land God, then learned from the Sixth Princess that Yang Chan was to be executed and went with her to plead for her.
• Chang'e and the Sixth Princess urged the Jade Emperor to spare Yang Chan, and Ren Ze suggested using her to lure Yang Jian into Heaven; the Jade Emperor agreed.
• While his illusion remained at the Jade Pool, Ren Ze ate peaches in the Peach Garden and found their spiritual power was absorbed by his Origin Pearl.
• Yang Jian and Nezha fought the heavenly forces at the Southern Heavenly Gate and escaped with Yang Chan after Nezha distracted Marshal Tianpeng.
• Great Golden Crow struck Nezha, who fled to the mortal realm, while Rolling Curtain arrived with the order to postpone Yang Chan's execution.
• Ren Ze left with the Sixth Princess, then dissolved his Eldest Princess disguise once he was alone.

Ren Ze escaped the Peach Garden after the Origin Pearl manifested the Three Thousand Great Daos and strengthened his understanding of the world’s laws. Meanwhile, the Golden Crows deployed their formation over Jade Spring Mountain to flush out Yang Jian, scorching the surrounding mortal lands as the chapter ended.

• The Jade Emperor ordered Marshal Tianpeng to lead fifty thousand heavenly soldiers to help Great Golden Crow capture Yang Jian and Yang Chan, then sent Second Golden Crow and Third Golden Crow as reinforcements.
• The Origin Pearl formed phantoms of the Three Thousand Great Daos, and Ren Ze discovered how the world’s laws related to immortal cultivation and assessed his path toward becoming a Taiyi Golden Immortal.
• Ren Ze stole several hundred peaches, broke the Peach Garden’s golden barrier with his Law of Gold and Solar Law, and escaped as the Earth God resolved to seek a transfer.
• At Jade Spring Mountain, Great Golden Crow and his brothers failed to find Yang Jian, who was hiding through transformation arts, and decided to use the Golden Crow Formation.
• Marshal Tianpeng objected that the formation would kill nearby mortals, then left to complain to the Jade Emperor as the three Golden Crows revealed their true forms.
• Three suns appeared over Jade Spring Mountain, and their heat dried rivers, cracked the earth, and set vegetation ablaze.

Yang Jian emerged from Jade Spring Mountain to confront the three Golden Crows scorching the mountain, but Third Golden Crow defeated him and the brothers seized him and Xiaotian Dog. Ren Ze arrived, rescued them, and faced the Golden Crows as his enormous transformation stunned Yang Jian.

• Yang Jian discovered that three Golden Crows were scorching Jade Spring Mountain and saw that the heat had killed creatures on the mountain and harmed people below.
• Yang Jian confronted the Golden Crows, blocked Third Golden Crow's first attack with his Celestial Eye, then was overwhelmed and gravely wounded by the Golden Crows' attacks.
• Third Golden Crow seized Xiaotian Dog while Second Golden Crow captured Yang Jian, and Jade Cauldron True Man came out to defend them but was forced to the ground by Great Golden Crow.
• Ren Ze appeared, severed Third Golden Crow's hand, protected the others with his inner universe, and healed Yang Jian with a Peach of Immortality.
• Great Golden Crow rejected Ren Ze's claim on the Golden Crows, and Ren Ze expanded into a giant through the Eight-Nine Profound Art, leaving Yang Jian amazed by his power.

Ren Ze defeated the heavenly forces attacking Jade Spring Mountain, then warned Yang Jian and Jade Cauldron True Man about the approaching Investiture of the Gods calamity before leaving to observe Nezha’s revival. The chapter ended with Ren Ze secretly watching Taiyi True Man prepare to rebuild Nezha’s body from lotus plants.

• Ren Ze drove off the heavenly soldiers, seized the three Golden Crows’ golden wheels, and killed Great Golden Crow and Third Golden Crow while Second Golden Crow fled.
• Ren Ze gave Yang Jian peaches to help him reach the Profound Immortal realm, explained the coming Investiture of the Gods calamity, and parted from Yang Jian and Jade Cauldron True Man.
• Ren Ze traveled to Chentang Pass and secretly followed Yang Chan to Qianyuan Mountain, where she brought Nezha’s corpse to Taiyi True Man.
• Ren Ze observed Taiyi True Man place Nezha’s body in a lotus pond and inferred that he planned to revive him through the Law of Wood, the Law of Soul, and the Law of Life.

Ren Ze completed his Law of Wood and secretly cultivated in Golden Light Cave while Taiyi True Man restored Nezha and Yang Chan built Nezha Palace. When Li Jing found the shrine, he smashed Nezha’s statue just as Nezha’s spirit awakened, destroying the spirituality he had gathered.

• Ren Ze completed the Law of Wood as Taiyi True Man formed Nezha’s lotus body and began repairing his shattered primordial spirit.
• Taiyi True Man secretly fashioned a pagoda from Nezha’s essence blood and soul to restrain him, while Ren Ze hid in a lotus and studied the Laws of Soul, Life, and Sun.
• Yang Chan returned with news that Nezha Palace had been built, and Taiyi True Man sent her away with Nezha’s restored body to receive three years of incense offerings.
• Second Golden Crow learned Yang Chan had been seen with Nezha and headed to Golden Light Cave, prompting Li Jing to flee Chentang Pass with his family for Mount Hua County.
• After hearing that Nezha Palace was drawing worshippers, Li Jing stormed the shrine, shoved Yang Chan aside, and prepared to destroy Nezha’s statue.
• Nezha’s spirit awakened in the statue and pleaded with Li Jing, but Li Jing struck it with his golden whip, scattering its spirituality as Yang Chan wept over the wreckage.

Li Jing destroyed Nezha’s clay body, but Taiyi True Man began restoring him with Yang Chan’s help while Ren Ze mastered the Law of Souls. As the Heavenly Court pursued Yang Chan, Yang Jian drew the soldiers away and met Ren Ze, then left to try to rescue his mother despite Ren Ze’s warning that Mount Peach was protected by the laws of Heaven.

• Li Jing shattered Nezha’s clay statue, and Yang Chan carried its fragments to Taiyi True Man for help.
• Yang Chan picked a lotus that Taiyi True Man used to begin restoring Nezha, while Ren Ze observed the Law of Souls and completed his comprehension of it.
• Yang Jian arrived at Golden Light Cave, advanced into the Profound Immortal realm through his study of the Soul Law, and learned to use the Heavenly Eye.
• Second Golden Crow and Marshal Tianpeng led celestial soldiers to capture Yang Chan, so Yang Jian transformed into her likeness and lured them away.
• Ren Ze hid Yang Jian inside his inner universe, where Yang Jian explained how he had comprehended aspects of the Law of Desire through the Heavenly Eye.
• Yang Jian rejected Ren Ze’s warning about Mount Peach and left to attempt to rescue Yaoji, while Ren Ze offered to help when he was ready.

Ren Ze learned that Ma Yuan was teaching Shiji the Blood Demon Art to prepare for the Investiture of the Gods tribulation, then considered how to strengthen himself by seeking powerful treasures and divine abilities. After Yang Jian used an Adamantine Divine Stone axe to split Mount Peach, he still could not break the Heavenly Dao chains binding Yaoji, and Ren Ze realized the chains might let him comprehend the Heavenly Dao.

• Ren Ze secretly listened as Ma Yuan urged Shiji to cultivate the Blood Demon Art and join the Styx lineage to survive the coming tribulation.
• Ren Ze decided he needed stronger divine abilities and set out to seek Kong Xuan and learn the Five-Colored Divine Light, but Yang Jian arrived asking for help rescuing Yaoji.
• Yang Jian showed Ren Ze the Adamantine Divine Stone, and after they studied it, Yang Jian mastered the Adamantine Law and forged the stone into an axe.
• Yang Jian split Mount Peach with the axe, but the Heavenly Dao chains still held Yaoji and their backlash wounded him.
• Ren Ze realized the chains might embody the Heavenly Dao and considered comprehending their laws directly.

Ren Ze manipulated Yang Jian into believing Yaoji had died, driving him to slaughter the Golden Crows and wreak havoc in Heaven. While Chang'e went to try to stop him, Ren Ze approached the still-living Yaoji and focused on the Heavenly Dao chains binding her.

• The Jade Emperor ordered the Eight Golden Crows to form their formation, and they burned Yaoji while Yang Jian tried to shield her.
• Ren Ze entered Yang Jian's Sea of Consciousness and made him see Yaoji die, provoking him to kill the Second Golden Crow and attack Heaven.
• Yang Jian killed the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Golden Crows, while the remaining Golden Crows fled and the Jade Emperor panicked.
• Chang'e volunteered to persuade Yang Jian, and the Jade Emperor learned that she might reach him because she was close to Yaoji.
• Ren Ze returned to Mount Peach, told the badly scorched but living Yaoji that he was her son's grand martial uncle, and eyed the Heavenly Dao chains.